Mass mailings generally have two primary purposes, and LTS can assist with a few different tools for each.
- Announcements:
- University Communications and Public Affairs (UCPA) publishes a daily digest of "Upcoming Lehigh Events and Announcements," , which links to their Events calendar service. This daily message outlines events happening around campus over the next couple of weeks and is sorted into categories such as " Announcements", " Academics", " Arts", " Athletics", " Student Life", etc.
- HawkwatchHawkWatch is Lehigh's emergency notification system and may be used to send life safety announcements out , including closures for weather events.
- Large mailings
- A third party tool, Digital Inspiration's Mail Merge, is available to the campus on a pilot basis and with "best effort" support. It allows you to send customized form letters to groups of people.
- Some Lehigh departments use third party vendors (including iModules, MailChimp, and ConstantContact) for mass mailings. Please contact the LTS Help Desk or your LTS Computing Consultant to discuss the options.
- Surveys
- To send out email requesting information via a web-based survey, LTS offers the Qualtrics system.
- Google Forms (choose Drive) are also used to do ad-hoc surveys.
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